Newt Gingrich, Big Book Thumper

In this Youtube video from a 2011 Republican Candidate Debate, Newt Gingrich states,
"there was a part of me that was truly 'hollow' ...and finally, a banker, who was a friend of mine from Georgia, gave me 'the two books that make up Alcoholics Anonymous'"  
The two books Gingrich is referring to are "The Big Book," and "The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions."

Gingrich went on to say:
"Now...I wasn't drinking, but I had precisely the symptoms of someone who was collapsing under this weight" [referring to his hollow feelings].

Reading the Big Book and trying to understand where I had failed and why I was empty and why I had to turn to God.  I think if I had not had that experience, that intervention, that I would have collapsed totally.  And that was really the beginning of turning my life around...I've been blessed."


I don't know what is more frightening:  The idea of this idiot being President, or the thought of people being so ignorant as to actually vote for him.